In short, the evolution of feathers would have ... one would expect on a creature leaping from trees. Other paleontologists argued that birds did not evolve from dinosaurs—rather, their ...

When we place the bird in the evolutionary tree, it reveals that other closely related groups must have also split off by then because they occupy lower branches,'' Dr Ksepka told the BBC.

Fungus-farming ants, fossilized footprints and a prehistoric critter named after a Muppet are just a few of the year’s most ...

For centuries, scientists have been piecing together the evolutionary puzzle of birds, the sole survivors of the dinosaur ...

That’s because today’s birds are the last remaining twig on an otherwise demolished dinosaur family tree, grown from fierce predators and sculpted by evolution into an array of flapping ...

Deep Tree: Students explore an interactive tree ... specific examples of evolution case studies, such as the evolution of birds, whales, and humans. Students will be able to cite applications ...

An enormous meteor spelled doom for most dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But not all. In the aftermath of the extinction event, birds—technically dinosaurs themselves—flourished. Scientists ...

Tree diagrams have been used in evolutionary biology since the time ... and turtles, but not birds. Because "reptiles" (in this sense) does not refer to a monophyletic group, it is difficult ...

You can map all of those things out and that can tell you the narrative of how evolution took a dinosaur and turned it into a bird.” “We can also calibrate that tree to time,” explains the ...